10. While reading a book I am oblivious to the outside world. People can shout my name, gesture rudely, but short of bodily injury, I will not notice them.

11. I’m happy if there’s a long wait at the mechanic/doctor’s office/airport because it means I get to read.

12. When putting together a travel checklist, my first item is always: “books to read.”

13. In lines or at doctor’s offices, when everyone else around me is tapping out messages on their cell phones, my face is buried in a book. (Kindle….)

14. If a novel I’m reading has a plot twist I wholeheartedly disagree with, I will complain, out loud, to my book.

15. When I discover a new book I’d like to read, the first thing I do is to list it as “want to read” on Goodreads. Then I blog about it. (I tweet about it. My to-read list has more than 1,500 books on it.)